Colorphobia.

Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 3, 1851.

Frederick Douglass:—Dear Sir:—The insensate antipathy nourished by the men of the American States toward the free men of color, is so base, and the insult it stimulates so cowardly, one is forced to suspect that the physiological structure of an American white man to be too in [illegible] to the benign influence of civilization, being that they are strangers to the amenities, and manners of polished society; indeed this morbid aversion to particular colors is an approximation to the dislike of many of the lower animals. A Bull, for example, will vent its ferocity upon a defenceless woman, if attired in a red garment: and a strutting swaggering turkey cock has the same ridiculous dislike to an obnoxious color; and, verily, this fluttering bird would be a fitting National symbol for the States of the Union, than that of the eagle, which is exempt from any optical infirmity.

But what is it really that is so offensive in the aspect of a man of color? If it be the tinge of the skin, as well might the [illegible] inhabitants of Denmark and Sweden repulse from the saloon of a Steamboat the swarthy sons of Portugal and Spain. Besides a multitude of the Slaves are [illegible] the paternity of white men, so [illegible] between this class and [illegible] there is merely this difference—the [illegible] skin is far more comely than the sallow complexion of their scorners, but many [illegible] it is not the dark skin that offends us, so much as the negro blood that ebbs and flows beneath that [illegible]. Oh!—and is the blood also of a different color from yours[?]—No, perhaps not, but it is African, the blood of the doomed children of Ham. One of your correspondents lately showed most adroitly that Africa was the mother of races of every color, and if Ham be the father of all, the Egyptians, the Moors, the [Abyssinians] and others, should be equally abhorent if the averment were true, but it is a [mere] pretense. The real cause of the [aversion is] that a dark skin is the [illegible] of the [illegible] and it is a well proved fact that [illegible] thoroughly hated by men as [those they have] injured, and the deeper the [illegible] more malevolent the hatred. [illegible] intensity of American malice. They know that an enormous injury has been per[illegible] and they detest the color that rem[inds them] of the deed. To fill up the measure [illegible] their iniquity, they [illegible] a race of [illegible]tal human beings into the vilest pit of [illegible]dation, and then [illegible] and all that resemble them, for the very abasement of which they are the authors. Can human [illegible]ness go beyond that.